#parent

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

#helplessly #impossible #oneself #open #talk

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#conscience #evil #parents #penance #prison

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33? ↗

— Ethel Merman

#born #difference #does #feel #i

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. ↗

— James Merrill

#access #communication #daunting #easy #easy access

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#any #being #different #had #healthy

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#highways #important #important job #job #keeping

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ↗

— Henry Miller

#baseness #capable #direction #either #know

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#absolutely #before #could #dreams #drive

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#growing up #harriet #i #like #nobody

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#i #i think #life #my life #now